Rachel G. Saykpah

Rachel G. Saykpah, is a Registered Nurse by profession. She works as a Quality Assurance Officer with Last Mile Health assigned to Jo-River District, Rivercess County. She is a graduate of the Cuttington University with a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a Licensed Nurse by the Liberian Board of Nursing and Midwifery since 2010. She also earned a certificate in practical Project Management from the Amref University in Nairobi, Kenya and was trained as a Master Trainer for the Community Health Program of Liberia by the Ministry of Health, Community Health Department and Last Mile Health. She is married with three kids, none of which are biological. Initially, when she joined the LMH Family, she served as a Training Supervisor for Grand Gedeh County and was later transferred to Rivercess County to serve in a similar capacity. In the position of a Training Supervisor, she was tasked with the responsibility to train Community Clinical Supervisors (CCS), Community Health Worker Leaders (CHWL) and Community Health workers (CHWS). She continuously worked with these workers to provide field-based coaching and mentoring to build a resilience community health workforce, taking quality health services to the doorsteps of the underprivileged. Rachel is overwhelmed to be selected as a HEAL fellow. Being a fellow has long been her dream. She strongly believes HEAL will help build her leadership capacity and upon completion of the fellowship, she would love to see take on a managerial role at LMH.She is a second year candidate of the Cuttington University Public Health Department specializing in Community Health.